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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lame Deer say the white man has changed it's women into?
(a) Workers.
(b) Hunters.
(c) Slaves.
(d) Housewives.

2. In the first part of the book, Lame Deer describes a white soldier bellied down in a gully watching the women using his green frog skin to fire up what?
(a) The bonfire for a dance.
(b) Buffalo chips.
(c) Fire wood.
(d) The latern for the tipi.

3. How much did the Indian who had lost a leg in an industrial accident receive in insurance money?
(a) Five thousand dollars.
(b) Twelve thousand dollars.
(c) Fifteen thousand dollars.
(d) Ten thousand dollars.

4. How many times was the door to the sweat house opened during the inipi ceremony?
(a) Four.
(b) Six.
(c) Three.
(d) Ten.

5. In the beginning of Chapter 11, Lame Deer describes a yuwipi ceremony. What does Lame Deer state roared in the darkness?
(a) The drums.
(b) The pipe smoke.
(c) The Great Spirit.
(d) The fire.

6. What does the name wicasa wakan mean?
(a) Medicine man.
(b) Holy man.
(c) Conjurer.
(d) Witch doctor.

7. In Chapter 7, Pete Catches talks about his sister eating what animal's heart?
(a) Turtle.
(b) Wolf.
(c) Buffalo.
(d) Dove.

8. What animal was most likely to appear in a vision that a medicine man had?
(a) A buffalo.
(b) An eagle.
(c) A deer.
(d) A bear.

9. How many squares of flesh did Lame Deer's grandmother cut from her arm for him to have in the vision pit?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Forty.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Fifteen.

10. Lame Deer talks about a bird in the book that doesn't chirp. What did the white man call this type of bird?
(a) An owl.
(b) A golden eagle.
(c) A crow.
(d) A night hawk.

11. Lame Deer stated that the only place his tribe could hold their sun dance was where?
(a) In an abandoned warehouse.
(b) The old fairgrounds.
(c) An open field behind their reservation.
(d) A front porch of one member of the tribe.

12. What was the name for men who dressed like women?
(a) Winktes.
(b) Montmack.
(c) Symbife.
(d) Tanka.

13. In Chapter 8, Lame Deer talks about a young Navajo boy and girl in their apartment in their city. What color of blanket did he put over this young couple?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Blue.
(c) Red.
(d) White.

14. What animal does Lame Deer mention in Chapter 7 that is much like an Indian because it's unchangeable?
(a) A cat.
(b) A buffalo.
(c) A wolf.
(d) A bear.

15. When the holy man came back to earth in the story of the ghost dance, he began to teach the people a dance. How many songs did he have?
(a) Four.
(b) Eight.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

Short Answer Questions

1. Korczak Ziolkowski told Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes that his Crazy Horse monument would dwarf what?

2. How many horses did Lame Deer's father have?

3. What does the word inipi mean?

4. Which tribe did the ghost dance start in?

5. What was the name of Lame Deer's other grandfather besides Crazy Heart?

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